Veterans Affairs committee  My understanding of some of that was the linkages with Australia. I'm sorry, but we don't have the details here amongst our group.

Veterans Affairs committee  There is information and we pass off some of the transition programs. We're looking to improve in that area and are mobilizing ourselves in bases, for instance, to ensure that the current proven members actually do know what is available. So we're trying to get the information ou

Veterans Affairs committee  No, we don't.

Veterans Affairs committee  I think that going forward it will be easier with the change in policy I'm talking about. But at the moment, when a person transitions out of the New Zealand Defence Force, they go out into the community of New Zealand, and unless they come back through another avenue, we don't k

Veterans Affairs committee  The RSA would be one mechanism. The board is very new. It's only been going for a couple of years, so if you look at their work program over the last year, it's mainly been focused on the repatriation policy changes that have been made here in this country. We're getting back i

Veterans Affairs committee  Well, we are a unit of the New Zealand police force. We're part of the family, if you like, although we have some quite specific accountabilities in regard to our veterans. There are good relationships there. As always, there are privacy issues, and we have worked through these w

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll just start by saying that the numbers sound high, but it comes down to the needs and to when there is an intensive need for the person to be case-managed. In fact, we have rehabilitation advisers too who support that process. Then, as I said, we have veterans who are being m

Veterans Affairs committee  While that's the current situation, we're also looking to the future because we do believe that we're going to have more intensive case management than what we have now. We're trying to look at modelling what will that look like going forward and what operating costs we will need

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Veterans Affairs committee  It works okay. It's difficult, particularly going back and looking at service records and at the qualifying factors. It is something we continue to try to simplify for the veteran, but it's probably the one area in which they would like to see change in this country.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, it is, if you look at the possible numbers of veterans in this country. Let me say that we have an excellent public health system here in New Zealand, and so many of these veterans, through their general practitioner, are also linked to secondary services. Our ACC system for

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we have. As I was talking about before, particularly about communications and linking with others, I think the biggest issue we have is people recognizing they are veterans. That recognition is really important. We are linking with our advocacy groups and others. We're also

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. Certainly, No Duff, as an organization that is run on peer support, is able to match veterans with the right peer as well. They have seen probably about a hundred veterans in the last year in the contemporary age range. That's where our link is important. They are bui

Veterans Affairs committee  No, it is independent. It is a voluntary group.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's not a medical panel, so it is using decision officers and a methodology that is completely independent from our case managers.